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Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi. Serving Hawaiʻi small businesses.
Makani AI sets up the workflows that handle your follow-ups, bookings and reminders, and keeps them running, so inquiries get answered and routine work gets done without hiring for it. You see it all in one app we set up, Makani OS for Mac and iPhone. Your email, calendar, books and booking platform stay where they are.
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The problem
Every unanswered call or slow reply is a customer who may call someone else.
Leads go cold because nobody had time to follow up.
Booking confirmations, appointment reminders, weekly reports: repetitive work that could run itself.
Your calendar, email, booking system and customer list are separate, so every handoff is manual.
How we work
Makani AI is a monthly service, not a one-time project. We build your workflows, watch them run, fix what breaks and review the results with you every month. The routine follow-ups, confirmations, reminders and invoices get done without adding payroll.
Owner-led: Makani AI's owner is your main contact, and we're responsible for every build. Independent contractors may help with support and parts of the build.
Your workflows are monitored as they run.
If a workflow stops working the way we built it, we fix it at no charge. Redesigns, and breaks caused by changes on your side, are quoted first.
We go over the results with you every month.
Services
Each workflow is set up for the way you work. Nothing technical for you to maintain.
When you miss a call, the caller gets a text back right away. Website inquiries land in your customer list and get a follow-up.
Booking confirmations, appointment reminders, review requests and win-back messages to past customers who've agreed to hear from you, sent within allowed hours.
Turns an accepted quote into an invoice, sends a receipt when it's paid and reminds customers who are late. Included in Growth and Business, or as Starter's get-paid track.
Daily, weekly or monthly summaries in your inbox: bookings, revenue and lead activity.
Your calendar, email, customer list, booking platform and website pass information to each other without retyping.
AI reads images, documents and messages. Example: photograph a schedule and the dates land on your calendar. AI can make mistakes, so check what it reads. AI-written replies to your customers stick to answers and facts you've approved and say they're automated.
Welcome messages and first-visit forms (no medical details) for new customers, sent from your business, not ours.
Connected tools
Information comes in from forms, calls, texts, bookings and spreadsheets. Your workflows sort it and send the right action to the right system.
Process
30 minutes. We learn your business and where you're losing the most time.
Once you sign, we map which workflows to build, which tools to connect and what you'll have running at launch.
We build and test, then you review. Workflows go live once you approve them, or after the review period in your agreement. Workflows that send messages, and every message template, need your written OK, and texting starts only after carrier registration is approved (usually several days to several weeks). Target: Starter and Growth within 1–2 weeks of receiving your setup fee; Business on the timeline in your statement of work.
Monthly check-ins, monitoring and fixes. New workflows when you upgrade, on the Business plan within your statement of work, or as a quoted change.
Pricing
After launch, monitoring and fixes are covered by your monthly fee. New workflows are added when you upgrade, on the Business plan within your statement of work, or as a quoted change. 3-month minimum, then month to month.
Estimated monthly cost to an employer:
Even with Hawaiʻi general excise tax (GET) added, Starter and Growth cost less per month than that part-time help, and Business costs less than one full-time hire at minimum wage. These are monthly prices only. The one-time setup fee, texting usage (on our invoice) and outside software aren't included.
This compares cost, not work. Automation takes on routine, repeatable tasks: texting back missed calls, confirming bookings, sending reminders and invoices. It doesn't replace a person for judgment calls or in-person work, and how much time it frees up depends on your business. We'll go through that on the free call. How we estimated this
The task costing you the most time, automated first.
Inquiry, booking, invoice, payment: one connected system.
Automation across your whole operation.
All plans have a 3-month minimum, then continue month to month. The setup fee is due before work begins; the monthly fee starts on your launch date. Your setup fee is invoiced with an ACH payment link. After launch, your monthly fee is debited automatically under an authorization you sign (or invoiced, if your bank can't be connected). Other charges are invoiced. Minimum commitment, billed monthly (setup, then 3 monthly payments): Starter $3,141, Growth $6,591, Business $9,991, plus GET. Prices are before Hawaiʻi general excise tax (4.712%), which is shown as a separate line on every invoice. Texting, calls, phone numbers and texting registration are billed on your invoice at what our provider charges us, with no markup added by us, plus GET. Accounts in your name (such as your automation account, where your plan uses one, and booking services) are billed by their providers. AI in your texting workspace is included up to a monthly limit in your proposal; past it, AI pauses unless you approve more, which is billed at our cost plus GET. Voice AI, if included, is billed as your proposal states. Other AI features run on your own AI account. Your written proposal shows the estimated full monthly cost, including usage and outside software, before you sign. If your first workflow isn't live within 60 days of our receiving everything we need, for reasons on our side, the setup fee is refunded (time in carrier or provider review doesn't count; your agreement covers the rest).
We took the wage (the May 2025 Hawaiʻi median for general office clerks, or the 2026 minimum wage) for 52 weeks a year and spread it over 12 months. We then added the employer's Social Security and Medicare (7.65%), federal unemployment tax (0.6% of the first $7,000), and Hawaiʻi unemployment tax at the new-employer rate (2.40%, plus a 0.01% employment and training assessment). We also added the employer's share of Hawaiʻi Prepaid Health Care, using the 2025 average single premium ($8,285 a year). Prepaid Health Care starts after four consecutive weeks and doesn't apply to some employees, such as those already covered on a family member's plan. Without it, the estimates are about $1,950 and $3,050. Not included: disability insurance, workers' compensation, paid leave and hiring costs, so the real cost is usually higher. Plan comparisons use monthly prices plus Hawaiʻi GET (4.712%). They leave out the one-time setup fee ($750 Starter, $1,500 Growth, $2,500 Business), texting usage (billed on our invoice at cost, plus GET), and outside software billed to you directly by its provider. Sources: Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2025, Table 5); Hawaiʻi Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (minimum wage, unemployment insurance, Prepaid Health Care); IRS; U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey–Insurance Component, 2025).
Why Makani AI
Based in Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi. Built for Hawaiʻi small businesses: contractors and trades, hospitality, vacation rentals, property management, food and beverage, health and wellness, retail and services.
Plan prices are on this page. Texting usage, the hourly rate for changes and every other charge are in your proposal and agreement before you sign.
Setup, monitoring and maintenance are ours. You use one app, Makani OS; we set it up and show your team how. You approve every message template and campaign before it's used.
Monitored, fixed and reviewed every month, not built once and left alone.
FAQ
No. You tell us what you want solved. We handle discovery, design, build, testing and maintenance. You review each workflow before it goes live and approve every text-message template in writing.
Small businesses across Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi: contractors and trades (plumbers, electricians, landscapers, tree trimmers, builders), hospitality, vacation rentals, property management, food and beverage, health and wellness, retail and services.
Starter and Growth: we aim to launch within 1–2 weeks of receiving your setup fee, depending on how quickly we can connect your accounts. Carrier review of your texting registration can add days to weeks. Business: the timeline is set in your statement of work.
It depends on size. For 1–2 units, Starter's lead track texts back the calls you miss, answers direct inquiries, sends booking confirmations and reminders, and asks for reviews. For 3–5 units, Growth adds cleaning-crew scheduling, handyman and vendor notifications, owner reporting, invoicing and expenses. For 6 or more units, or a team and several revenue streams, choose Business. Your booking platform, such as Hospitable or Guesty, keeps handling calendar sync; we add what it doesn't do.
Most of your lost work is a call you couldn't take from a roof or a crawl space. Starter's lead track covers a text back to every call you miss, job reminders to the customer the day before, and a review request when the job is done; or choose the get-paid track for invoices and receipt-photo expenses. Growth adds the money side: an accepted estimate becomes an invoice, receipts go out when it's paid, overdue reminders go out on their own, your crew and subs get a day-before reminder for each job, and your receipts land in your books from a photo. Builders with several jobs running at once, or a crew and an office, fit Business.
Starter's lead track covers what matters most during service: reservation confirmations and reminders, a text back when you miss a call, and a review request after the visit. Growth adds a text to the next guest when a table opens, receipt and expense tracking, review monitoring with an alert on anything under four stars, and a nightly summary of bookings and sales. Reservations keep living in whatever you use today; we confirm the connection to your reservation system and point of sale during discovery.
Your customer data is yours. It's kept in our app's database, where each business sees only its own data, and in the texting workspace we provide. Support contractors get only what they need, under confidentiality terms; the service providers that host your data are bound by security and breach-notice terms. We never sell your data or use it to train AI; we use only combined, de-identified usage statistics to run and improve the app. When we stop working together, you get 30 days to export, then we delete your app data and remove our access. We keep only the records needed to show approvals, consent and what was sent, for 4½ years after the last message (longer only while a claim is pending), protected like the rest of your data.
We monitor your workflows, and fixes are covered by your monthly fee. Response times: Starter, by email within two business days; Growth, by the end of the next business day; Business, by 9 pm for requests received by 3 pm Hawaiʻi time, otherwise by 10 am the next business day. A response means we've started work. Times can be longer during planned time off, which we tell you about in advance.
Yes, anytime. We add the automations, adjust your monthly fee and credit the setup fee you've already paid toward the new plan's setup fee. Your 3-month minimum doesn't restart. Your plan price doesn't change during your first 3 months after launch (or during any longer price lock in your proposal); after that, we change it at most once in 12 months, with 30 days' notice.
You use our app, Makani OS. Behind it we run your texts, calls and bookings on a platform we provide, plus an automation account in your name (where your plan uses one) and AI providers for the parts that read text, photos and documents. Your proposal names every service.
Plans continue month to month after a 3-month minimum. Email us before your next billing date; there is no cancellation fee. Your accounts, and the workflows in them, stay yours.
No. General excise tax (4.712%) is added as a separate line on each invoice.
Email us to book a free 30-minute call. Tell us how you work; we'll find where automation would save you the most time, outline what we'd build and send you a written proposal with the estimated full cost.
Not ready for a call? Email us what eats your time and we'll reply in writing with what we'd automate first and what it would cost.